The things they said...

In view of DSI’s recent comments on the wonderful sounds made by racing engines, the following remark by Warwick Wright, back in 1927, is rather apposite: “I maintain that the Brooklands silencer is absurdly noisy. . . it is a “degree of silence” that can be remarked at a distance of about a mile. It may be, of course, that the Brooklands authorities rather like racing cars to be noisy, with the idea that the public gets a pleasant thrill from the roaring of more or less open exhausts. . .” Mr. Warwick Wright went on to extol the silencer on the Stutz, for which he was an agent and which he was then racing at the Track, saying it gave “a genuinely high degree of noiselessness in the exhaust without any back pressure or other disadvantages”. He claimed that the Stutz was just as fast with its normal silencer as it was with the official Brooklands pattern. W B